Lot 6239

Pseudo-money, AE 'Grater Money' (Coole vol. 5, #6805; ZENO 184476) - Such graters are published in different catalogs (Chinese and even Western) as form of primitive money in the Ancient China. But there are no any evidence that it was used as money (as well as all other pseudo-money - fishes, bells, bridges etc.). Among other names, the Chinese call these things 'Lung Niu Hsing' meaning 'coiled dragon and stars'- attractive VF